The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-03-11


any six women whose husbands are
drunkards.
Many farmers in the vicinity of Mum
Gle, Ind, find themselves compelled to
purchase freedom from leases made
to swlndlers proposing to bore for gas
and oil.
A passenger train on the Atlantic &
Pacific road went through n bridge in
the vicinity of Needles, Cal. -Four per-
sons were killed and five were seriously
injured.
Four members of the Toledo produce
exchange are the owners OF an oil well
struck in Wood county, Ohio. which
flows at the rate Of six thousand bar
rels per day. ff
The united labor party of Chicago
nominated q molder named Robert
Nelson for mayor. John Nj. Dollard for
city clerk, and Frank A. Stauber for
city treasurer.
The Minnesota House, by q vote of
81 to O, passed a bill providing that
every common carrier shall before
April reduce rates 20 per cent. on all
classes of freight.
Andrew ID. White, ex-president of
Cornell university, was rendered by
President Cleveland a place OH the
interstate commerce commission, which
he is likely to decline.
A rich vein of Bessemer ore has been
discovered on Mount Menard, just out
side of Marquette, Mich, by two
young men who have been exploring
in that vicinity all winter.
The Illinois Senate passed resolu-
ton declaring it to be the duty of the
general assembly to see that the terms
of the convict-labor amendment be
carried out by proper legislation.
William Beck, a Wayne county, Ind.
veteran. was allowed a pension of $72
per month. which entities him to draw
$l0,30G He is blind, and was led
around Washington for some time.
In the suit of Felix A. Graham
against Father Fennessey. of Louis
vile, for $50, 600 damages for interior
ing with his ordination to the priest
hood, the court found for the defend
ant.
President Cleveland has nominated
James M. Trotter, a cOlored citizen of
Massachusetts, to be recorder of deeds
for the District of Columbia. lie was a
lieutenant in Colonel Shaw's famous
regiment.
In the senatorial ballot, Tuesday, in
the New Jersey Legislature thirty-five
democrats supported Leon Albeit,
while Sewell led the scattered republic
can house.
There are indications that the In
diana legislature will adjourn on
March :, with the deadlock unbroken.
Letters and kilograms Dour in upon
members of each side urging them to
stand firm.
Two men employed OLA IA branch of
the Gallician railway, in Austria, have
been arrested as Russian spies. They
were secretly engaged in distributing
pamphlets and sending eeports to St.
Petersburg.
Richard Reabecker some years ago
took out naturalization papers at Shell
byville, Ill. On returning to Germany
TO secure an estate which he inherited
he was arrested for having evaded
military duty.
A bill before the Senate of Mime
sofa provides that an assault by blud-
geon or pistol upon an editor, reporter,
or correspondent for malicious libel
shall not be considered a violation of
the penal code.
The first general strike of news
paper cOmpositors ever known in Mil
waukee took place at p. M. Tuesday.
The offices are advertising at various
points for printers
The lava from Mcuna Loa, on the
island of Hawaii, recently travelled
twenty miles down the mountain in
two days. subsequently vein of fire
burst forth and followed the line of the
flow to the seaside.
Conference committees of the senate
and house have agreed to tax frac-
tional parts OF gallon of liquor, to
check the practice of Cincinnati dis
tillers of putting ten and One-half gal
Ions into Il tin can.
William E. English, of indianapolis,
when OH the point of leaving for Eu-
rope, was arrested for criminal rela-
tiOns with a widow and procuring an
abortion. Damages to the amount of
S25,0 900 are claimed.
The Ohio Supreme court has decided
that county treasurers must, according
to law, expend sums collected under
the Dow liquor tax law, and that the
fact of the money being paid under
protest is Of no avail.
The Hon. Jesse w. Fell, an enter
prising citizen of Bloomington, ILL.,,
expired Friday morning. aged 7S. He
was the first man, 1t Is said. to propose
and work for the nomination of Abra-
ham Lincoln for the presidency.
A survey being made between Port
age and Madison is said to be for the
Wisconsin Central. That comrany on
Sunday had one hundred men at work
laying track on private property at
River Forest, ten miles out of Chicago.
T. s. Darling, a prominent citizen of
Detroit, was arrested in Washington
for passing counterfeit $50 note,
which he had received ut the Grand
Union hotel in New York. The post
master of Detroit secured his release.
The New York banks report de-
creases of over 81 900. 900 each of their
reserves and specie. bringing the sur
plus down to 81, 1893 600. The clear
ings of the Chicago banks were 49,
5l,757-a gain Of $780, 600 over last
year.
The West Virginia legislature ad-
journed without making the annual
appropriation bill. and also without
electing a United States senator. The
governor will appoint senator and
call q special session to attend to other
matters.
Henry Jansen, the wife-murderer
confined in Jail at Chicago, was allow
ed to walk in the corridor. He seized